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Welcome to Bee Class

The following staff work in Bee Class:

Miss Bentley - Class Teacher

Mrs Pickles - Higher Level Teaching Assistant

Key information:

P.E. sessions will be on a Tuesday and a Thursday.

Please ensure that your child has suitable kit for both indoor and outdoor activities.

 

Spelling and mental maths tests will be every Friday. Spelling lists will be sent out each Friday for the following week.

 

 

Reading

Home reading books are changed every Friday. Please bring book bags and reading records in for books to be swapped.

 

Maths

Birchfield Primary School follows the maths scheme provided by the White Rose Maths Hub. 

Further support

The White Rose Maths Hub also work alongside diagnostic questions which provides a range of online questions and activities to promote problem solving and reasoning. 

Click here for the link to Diagnostic questions website.

Click here for the link to Nrich.

Click here for TTRockstars.

How you can support your child:

  • Ensure that your child is reading to an adult on a regular basis - little and often is the best approach. It is important that your child reads aloud in order for the adult to check fluency and understanding and also so they are able to correct any words that are mispronounced.
  • Practise times tables regularly - by the end of Year 4, all pupils must know the times tables up to 12 x 12.
  • Provide writing opportunities - short writing tasks such as diary entries, a letter to a member of the family, a postcard, a cartoon strip with captions etc. will really help your child develop spoken word into a written format and build their stamina for writing longer texts in school.
  • Correct their spoken language/pronunciation - children at this age will write exactly how they say a word aloud. Therefore if a child pronounces a word incorrectly then their spelling will be affected, equally if a child speaks grammatically incorrect then they will write in that way too. Demonstrate and correct the spoken language accurately and not only will your child's speaking skills improve but their writing will too.